Porn sites would utilize this? Huh? the purpose of a porn site is to get as many visitors as humanly possible to earn money. Why in the hell would any sane porn site owner voluntarily do something that will REDUCE the number of visitors coming to his/her site? No. Porn sites will NOT use this system.
If someone tried to raise their IT consulting rates because "Apache is the only game out there," someone else would jump in with all the knowledge for half the price, and the problem would be solved.
You're assuming that everybody values their time and knowledge at $0. That's not true. I don't care how much competition there is, if consulting rates for what I do go down below a certain level, that's it. I'm out. I'll go do something else. You ALWAYS have to pay for expertise, unless you want a legion of high school kids running your IT departments.
How very idealistic of you. But, how, exactly, would a non-profit ISP do any better than all of the mom-and-pop ISPs who have gone under, and even the big ones that actually know what they're doing? Screw nonprofit. If you think that you can do it better, than do it, and walk away with a personal fortune. If you can't do any better, than shut your yap, please.
What's the point of a computer in a console? If I wanted better games with better graphics, but didn't mind fighting with configuration, hardware specs, blah, I'd just play a computer game. A console is for those of us who want to smoke a bowl, grab a bag of Doritos, and veg out in front of the TV. It's designed to be FUN. To me, dealing with a hard drive, OS, etc. is exactly what I DON'T want from a game system. Screw that. All I need from my console is a place to put the CD/cartridge in, and a power button. Anything else is to damn complicated. I'll stick with the PS/2. Remember: "Puff, Puff Give!"
The truth is that Open Source is a religion. Those who love it, write about it and preach every second they have. Those who don't care, quite honestly, don't care. I don't write open source code, I won't write open source code, so why would I waste my time trying to convince others NOT to use Open Source? I have plenty of work. I have plenty to do without proselytizing AGAINST Open Source.
Very simple. Developers generally don't get paid to develop Open Source. There are millions and millions of developers (like myself) who don't code for free. That's a big negative.
NAN's are assuming that there's a local super-geek that wants to give up his bandwidth, and run a server all of the time. That's not going to happen all that much. Plus, NAN's only work in cities or very tightly clustered neighborhoods. That's irrelevant for most people in at least the US.
Slashdot is a terrorist organization. The link to the article for this story was a web server for the US House of Representatives, and since it's been Slashdotted, that constitutues an "attack". Looks like Taco should be expecting a knock at his front door by some men in suits.
most of these programs required no more than $100M to survive, but couldn't get even that, at a time when our gov't spends that much every day dropping bombs on empty "terrorist training camps".
Let's make the world a safe place before we go off wrecking other planets/moons, etc. Imagine what those nutbags could to with commercial trips to/from the moon and airtight moon colonies?? It would make 9/11 look like a cherry bomb in comparison.
their business model assumes they will maintain monopoly status so you won't have anywhere else to go when your subscription is up - so how is there any more motivation under this business model?
How'd you get to this? With a subscription, there's less invested in the software, so it's EASIER to switch. What monopoly status are you talking about?
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. So, you have read one book and think that everyone that doesn't agree to that concrete book doesn't have a clue?
Actually, I've read many books, taken many classes, and gotten an Oracle certification. But hey, what do I know?
Well, I'm not talking about theory. I'm a full-time, professional database developer. I've even got an Oracle cert. It's not just theory. I've seen instances where people who know nothing about databases create a database and treat it like it's an Excel worksheet. No foreign keys, no views, etc. It turns into a real nightmare. Currently, I'm working on converting an old client-server app from a database with no foreign keys. Let me tell you, the app was good, but not PERFECT. Thus, there's a lot of garbage data, and to convert it requires a TON of data massaging. No, I've seen databases created correctly, and those without, and I can say without a doubt that unless you're building a small database for personal use, a DB with no foreign keys is an absolute mess. Hell, what's the point of having a relational database without data constraints? You might as well just create some flat text files and query those through a provider.
You don't need foreign keys to maintain referential integrity. A proper GUI, among many other things, can enforce this anyway. It is a nice feature, but definitely not needed in a well designed system. Further they slow down performance and I have seen projects where they are not used because of this.
This is a terrible suggestion. Unless you're developing a tiny application that only you will be using, anybody who doesn't use foreign keys is completely incompetent. I know, it sounds harsh, but it's true. Not using foreign keys is like writing an application with just one long main() procedure. A. You're assuming that only one gui and no users will ever access this database. B. If the GUI isn't perfect, your data is garbage. C. It makes future analysis and upgrades very difficult, if not impossible.
These can be nice too, but I personally never use them. They are simply not required in any project I've ever seen. Actually I think views are confusing because they mask the real tables. I think this is a style issue more than anything else, YMMV.
Wow. Views are useful for security, and for performance.
No offense guy, but you know absolutely nothing about databases. You really should not be giving out advice on them. Pick up a BASIC database theory book and read it. When you're done, read it again. You have a lot to learn.
Wow. Talk about naive. The moral is very obviously simply don't write code for free. Period. There's absolutely no point in coding for free when you can do the exact same thing and be compensated for it.
Look, dude. Each Rep and Senator has MILLIONS of constituents. They can't repond to each one. Deal with it. And, just because you're opposed to it, doesn't mean that they are. It's MAJORITY rule, and obviously, the MAJORITY supports this. Deal with it.
First off. Slashdot is about the only place where "crackers" are people who maliciously damage systems and "hackers" are people who "hack" code. That's completely irrelevant in this discussion, also.
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Porn sites would utilize this? Huh? the purpose of a porn site is to get as many visitors as humanly possible to earn money. Why in the hell would any sane porn site owner voluntarily do something that will REDUCE the number of visitors coming to his/her site? No. Porn sites will NOT use this system.
If someone tried to raise their IT consulting rates because "Apache is the only game out there," someone else would jump in with all the knowledge for half the price, and the problem would be solved.
You're assuming that everybody values their time and knowledge at $0. That's not true. I don't care how much competition there is, if consulting rates for what I do go down below a certain level, that's it. I'm out. I'll go do something else. You ALWAYS have to pay for expertise, unless you want a legion of high school kids running your IT departments.
How very idealistic of you. But, how, exactly, would a non-profit ISP do any better than all of the mom-and-pop ISPs who have gone under, and even the big ones that actually know what they're doing? Screw nonprofit. If you think that you can do it better, than do it, and walk away with a personal fortune. If you can't do any better, than shut your yap, please.
What's the point of a computer in a console? If I wanted better games with better graphics, but didn't mind fighting with configuration, hardware specs, blah, I'd just play a computer game. A console is for those of us who want to smoke a bowl, grab a bag of Doritos, and veg out in front of the TV. It's designed to be FUN. To me, dealing with a hard drive, OS, etc. is exactly what I DON'T want from a game system. Screw that. All I need from my console is a place to put the CD/cartridge in, and a power button. Anything else is to damn complicated. I'll stick with the PS/2. Remember: "Puff, Puff Give!"
The truth is that Open Source is a religion. Those who love it, write about it and preach every second they have. Those who don't care, quite honestly, don't care. I don't write open source code, I won't write open source code, so why would I waste my time trying to convince others NOT to use Open Source? I have plenty of work. I have plenty to do without proselytizing AGAINST Open Source.
Very simple. Developers generally don't get paid to develop Open Source. There are millions and millions of developers (like myself) who don't code for free. That's a big negative.
Well, where's the Gartner Group proclaiming that people should immediately switch from Linux to another platform?
Procmail is not for the uninitiated. The uninitiated should just get a Yahoo Mail account which does an exceptional job of stopping spam.
NAN's are assuming that there's a local super-geek that wants to give up his bandwidth, and run a server all of the time. That's not going to happen all that much. Plus, NAN's only work in cities or very tightly clustered neighborhoods. That's irrelevant for most people in at least the US.
Slashdot is a terrorist organization. The link to the article for this story was a web server for the US House of Representatives, and since it's been Slashdotted, that constitutues an "attack". Looks like Taco should be expecting a knock at his front door by some men in suits.
How many Linux users are going to buy clothes from L.L. Bean or Chadwick's?
Don't most of them buy clothes from K-Mart and the Salvation Army, anyway?
most of these programs required no more than $100M to survive, but couldn't get even that, at a time when our gov't spends that much every day dropping bombs on empty "terrorist training camps".
Let's make the world a safe place before we go off wrecking other planets/moons, etc. Imagine what those nutbags could to with commercial trips to/from the moon and airtight moon colonies?? It would make 9/11 look like a cherry bomb in comparison.
their business model assumes they will maintain monopoly status so you won't have anywhere else to go when your subscription is up - so how is there any more motivation under this business model?
How'd you get to this? With a subscription, there's less invested in the software, so it's EASIER to switch. What monopoly status are you talking about?
. So, you have read one book and think that everyone that doesn't agree to that concrete book doesn't have a clue?
Actually, I've read many books, taken many classes, and gotten an Oracle certification. But hey, what do I know?
Well, I'm not talking about theory. I'm a full-time, professional database developer. I've even got an Oracle cert. It's not just theory. I've seen instances where people who know nothing about databases create a database and treat it like it's an Excel worksheet. No foreign keys, no views, etc. It turns into a real nightmare. Currently, I'm working on converting an old client-server app from a database with no foreign keys. Let me tell you, the app was good, but not PERFECT. Thus, there's a lot of garbage data, and to convert it requires a TON of data massaging. No, I've seen databases created correctly, and those without, and I can say without a doubt that unless you're building a small database for personal use, a DB with no foreign keys is an absolute mess. Hell, what's the point of having a relational database without data constraints? You might as well just create some flat text files and query those through a provider.
You don't need foreign keys to maintain referential integrity. A proper GUI, among many other things, can enforce this anyway. It is a nice feature, but definitely not needed in a well designed system. Further they slow down performance and I have seen projects where they are not used because of this.
This is a terrible suggestion. Unless you're developing a tiny application that only you will be using, anybody who doesn't use foreign keys is completely incompetent. I know, it sounds harsh, but it's true. Not using foreign keys is like writing an application with just one long main() procedure. A. You're assuming that only one gui and no users will ever access this database. B. If the GUI isn't perfect, your data is garbage. C. It makes future analysis and upgrades very difficult, if not impossible.
These can be nice too, but I personally never use them. They are simply not required in any project I've ever seen. Actually I think views are confusing because they mask the real tables. I think this is a style issue more than anything else, YMMV.
Wow. Views are useful for security, and for performance.
No offense guy, but you know absolutely nothing about databases. You really should not be giving out advice on them. Pick up a BASIC database theory book and read it. When you're done, read it again. You have a lot to learn.
I dare you.
Obviously, whoever modded this as "flamebait" has never seen an episode of Star Trek with this guy in it.
That's it. That's all I want to know. Are you gay? I know, it's a no-brainer, but still, I'd like to hear it from the horse's mouth.
Wow. Talk about clueless. What do you think Oracle is written in?
Wow. Talk about naive. The moral is very obviously simply don't write code for free. Period. There's absolutely no point in coding for free when you can do the exact same thing and be compensated for it.
Wow. You are truly stupid. They want to stop people from killing innocent Americans, you stupid sack of shit.
Look, dude. Each Rep and Senator has MILLIONS of constituents. They can't repond to each one. Deal with it. And, just because you're opposed to it, doesn't mean that they are. It's MAJORITY rule, and obviously, the MAJORITY supports this. Deal with it.
First off. Slashdot is about the only place where "crackers" are people who maliciously damage systems and "hackers" are people who "hack" code. That's completely irrelevant in this discussion, also.
I think that the goal is very simple and very clear: stop terrorism.